Podcast: Bob and Roberta Smith RA on printmaking and art education
Podcast: Bob and Roberta Smith RA on printmaking and art education
By RA Podcast Team
Published 9 June 2015
Famous for his letter to Michael Gove, the artist Bob and Roberta Smith RA talks about the value of art in the school curriculum and the importance of visual communication since the beginning of civilisation.
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Bob and Roberta Smith RA founded the Art Party in 2013, a non-political organisation established to defend creativity and arts education. In this talk, the artist discusses the human experience of “making you mark” and “having your mark reproduced”. He believes in the importance of “things being graphic” and is willing to fight for art’s survival in the world today.
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